Integrable and chaotic motions of four vortices. I. The case of identical vortices

DOI10.1098/rspa.1982.0047zbMath0483.76031MaRDI QIDQ3942584

Hassan Aref, Neil Pomphrey

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.1982.0047

zbMATH Keywords

two-dimensional; point vortices; coupled nonlinear oscillators; reduction procedure; Poisson-bracket formalism; three-vortex problem; sequence of canonical transformations; heteroclinic orbit in phase space; integrability of Euler's equation; N identical vortices; N-degree-of-freedom Hamiltonian

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

76B47: Vortex flows for incompressible inviscid fluids

70H05: Hamilton's equations

70K99: Nonlinear dynamics in mechanics

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

33E05: Elliptic functions and integrals

70H15: Canonical and symplectic transformations for problems in Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics

70G10: Generalized coordinates; event, impulse-energy, configuration, state, or phase space for problems in mechanics

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